Machine learning applied to electronic medical records can be used to create personalized lab-test reference ranges and to quantify disease risk, which will pave the way for precision medicine in clinical care.
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Tang, A., Oskotsky, T. & Sirota, M. Personalizing routine lab tests with machine learning. Nat Med 27, 1514–1515 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01486-4
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